Word: segregationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Similarly, in Florida, a questionnaire sent out by the state House Communism Investigating Committee to all teachers in state supported colleges, inquiring about their political affiliations and their views on segregation, produced heat on all sides, but no legislation.
1.) That a visiting speaker had called for the end of racial segregation.
This week, in one of its newsiest Opinion Mondays, the Supreme Court: ¶ Outlawed the Jim Crow segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars on interstate trips. ¶ Ordered the University of Texas to admit Heman Sweatt, Negro, to its all-white law school, on the ground that the Negro...
The two 9-to-0 decisions, both written by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, declared that the varieties of segregation practiced by the University of Texas Law School and the University of Oklahoma graduate school of education violated the "equal protection" guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Court, however, did not say that all types of segregation were proscribed by the Constitution.